Wildfires in Los Ríos
Los Ríos, Ecuador: 27 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 13 cantons since 2016, burning 43,836 hectares inside the region. The largest was Puebloviejo in November 2025, with 5,686 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).
Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 43,836ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 6.0%
- 7,256 km²
- fires
- 27
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 7
- of 13
- Largest fire
- 5,686ha
- Puebloviejo · November 2025
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 26 Very low 32° · 66 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 33° · 57 % · 21 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 33° · 58 % · 22 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 32° · 60 % · 19 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 32° · 65 % · 24 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 31° · 68 % · 28 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 32° · 58 % · 26 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 30° · 71 % · 21 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 5,686 haPuebloviejoNovember 2025 · 15 days
- 3,460 haVinces16 November 2022 · 9 days
- 2,475 haVentanas15 November 2016 · 11 days
- 2,312 haPalenque20 November 2022 · 11 days
- 2,084 haVinces25 November 2025 · 6 days
- 2,054 haPuebloviejo10 November 2020 · 7 days
- 1,925 haPuebloviejo25 November 2020 · 7 days
- 1,695 haVentanas20 November 2016 · 9 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | 15,548 | Puebloviejo 5,686 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 1,069 | Palenque 1,069 ha |
| 2022 | 4 | 8,096 | Vinces 3,460 ha |
| 2020 | 6 | 8,460 | Puebloviejo 2,054 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 2,530 | Ventanas 1,310 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,657 | Mocache 1,657 ha |
| 2016 | 4 | 6,477 | Ventanas 2,475 ha |
All fires in Los Ríos · 27
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,305 haVincesDecember 2025 · 10 days
- 1,039 haPalenque6 December 2025 · 9 days
- 1,036 haPalenque6 December 2025 · 6 days
- 1,029 haPalenque28 November 2025 · 3 days
- 1,056 haPalenque26 November 2025 · 4 days
- 857 haVinces25 November 2025 · 6 days of 1,131 ha in total
- 1,455 haVentanasNovember 2025 · 5 days
- 2,084 haVinces25 November 2025 · 6 days
- 5,686 haPuebloviejoNovember 2025 · 15 days
- 1,069 haPalenqueNovember 2024 · 9 days
- 1,237 haPalenque22 November 2022 · 14 days
- 2,312 haPalenque20 November 2022 · 11 days
- 3,460 haVinces16 November 2022 · 9 days
- 1,087 haVinces16 November 2022 · 9 days
- 1,925 haPuebloviejo25 November 2020 · 7 days
- 1,187 haVincesNovember 2020 · 2 days
- 1,238 haPuebloviejo20 November 2020 · 1 day
- 2,054 haPuebloviejo10 November 2020 · 7 days
- 1,016 haPalenqueNovember 2020 · 7 days
- 1,040 haMocacheNovember 2020 · 8 days
- 1,310 haVentanas29 November 2019 · 1 day
- 1,220 haVentanas23 November 2019 · 1 day
- 1,657 haMocacheNovember 2017 · 7 days
- 1,695 haVentanas20 November 2016 · 9 days
- 1,293 haPalenqueNovember 2016 · 9 days
- 1,015 haPuebloviejoNovember 2016 · 2 days
- 2,475 haVentanas15 November 2016 · 11 days
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
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